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102 Prison J. 3 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl102 and id is 1 raw text is: Artide The Prison Journal 2022, Vol. 102(1) 3-24 The Effect of Reading © 2022 SAGE Publications Article reuse guidelines: Prisoner Poetry on sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/00328855211069127 Stigma and Public iournals.sagepub.com/home/tpi Attitudes: Results AGE from a Multigroup Survey Experiment Christopher P. Dum', Kelly M. Socia2, Bengt George', and Halle M. Neiderman3 Abstract We examine how public attitudes toward currently/formerly incarcerated people and their reentry into society are affected by consuming information about imprisoned people. Over 1,500 respondents from a national online survey were randomly assigned one of five sources of written information about currently and formerly incarcerated people (CFIP) (three informative pieces and two sets of incarceree poetry). They then reported their views toward them and support for reentry policies. While no differences in sup- port for reentry initiatives across conditions were uncovered, those reading poetry with a humanizing theme applied the least amount of stigma toward currently/formerly incarcerated people. Keywords reentry, public opinion, prison, stigma, narrative humanization 'Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA 2University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA 3American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Corresponding Author: Christopher P. Dum, Kent State University Department of Sociology, PO Box 5190, Kent, OH, 44242, USA. Email: cdum@kent.edu